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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The thing to do next, said one of the girls,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's a good thing we've been having the funny old dances in 'gym,' isn't it? asked Kathryn."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you suppose the boys know 'em?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They can learn. I imagine we'll all be told what to do. Besides, nobody has to dance that doesn't want to."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Get into a corner and whisk off that hot mask, she advised."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll turn my back to you and hand you the little one."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You won't give me away if you happen to see?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course not. I will _keep your secret_ till we unmask!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I see that you will have to make a great choice,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have gifts. You might have a career. You are musical and there are some practical lines in your hand, too. Your life line is good--yes, I see a long life for you. You are rather creative."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What is the great choice?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, yes. It's the usual choice between marriage and a career."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Couldn't I have both?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It doesn't work, laughed the gypsy, forgetting her pose."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I mean to say that you may have several serious love affairs and you may choose to marry. When you take your mirror tonight and your candle and look in the mirror, repeat this charm; for it will drive away the goblins and witches and other evil spirits and you may really see the one you are to love best!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It will lose its power if you do, said she."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, friend gypsy, let me see what the fates have for you. Oh, yes. That's a nice hand, good lines, some mentality, not too much, some gifts; you will marry and there will be several, one, two, three children, a long life--but beware a dark woman who will try to come between you and the man you love!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She isn't so good, laughed Kathryn after she and Betty left the tent,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I suppose there's some arrangements for the mirror stunt, said Betty."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, there's the music--let's see where it is. Why, Gypsy, Marcella has a real orchestra--or a number of the pieces anyhow. Listen! They're tuning up!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Be very careful, announced the Pirate of Penzance,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O Witches and Goblins, by this little light, Please send me the face of my true love tonight!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Say it out loud,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All right. Do I light my candle first?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't let the third one go out, warned the witch, now solemn and speaking with a deep voice."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "When the third one fails, the bad luck hails!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How awful!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Better watch the flame while you go behind the curtain, suggested the witch in almost human tones,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "O Witches and Goblins, by this little light, Please send me the face of my true love tonight!"
}
] |
34728
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good work. You didn't squeal or anything. I was here just for fun, but I didn't blow your candle out. I shut the door that had sprung open. See?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now you shall see somebody, if it isn't your own true love, whispered the voice."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Look in your mirror, Titania!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now let me see _you_ without the mask,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thanks, said he,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Good-bye."
}
] |
34728
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Didn't your light go out? asked the witch."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was talking to the next masker but I saw no light for a moment through the crack by the curtain."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, but--there was a match there--so I--well, I looked in the mirror all right and, of course, I saw my true love!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fine, said the girl to test her luck next."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hurry up and give me a match, please. That whole bunch that's bobbing for apples is coming here next."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, what a funny time! The Pirate of Penzance was nobody she had ever seen before. He must be some friend of Marcella's who knew all about the place, basement and all. And wasn't it nice of him to do that? He was quite clear that he wasn't her"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Betty, I mean Titania, she cried, lowering her voice."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I guess nobody heard that. Excuse me. Did you go in to look in the mirror and did they have the big mirror up then?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No. I mean I went in to see my true love in a glass, but I was given a little hand mirror."
}
] |
34728
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She came out all scared to pieces and the witch started to tell her it was bad luck all in fun, but the girl cried and Marcella came running to tell her that the mirror didn't matter and there wasn't any such thing as good and bad luck really."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Which girl was it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She took off her mask, but I didn't know her. It was some junior girl, I think. Marcella took her upstairs. Why, she is in a colonial costume, Martha Washington or Dolly Madison or something like that."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't believe Martha and Dolly would dress alike, Carolyn, laughed Betty."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let's go and sit down somewhere. I think the orchestra's going to play again. So many of the crowd have come up from 'witchdom' now. It was sort of spooky downstairs, but such fun."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wasn't it. Did you see anything in your mirror, Betty?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, of course,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I knew all the time it was you!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, you fooled me perfectly! I hadn't an idea!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I thought it was you, and then you had changed your voice so that I was not sure."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You gave yourself away when you used that funny expression about Jean. I'd heard you say that before."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, and when you wrinkled up your forehead I knew _you_!"
}
] |
34728
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you all over your being bitten by the snake, Lucia?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, yes. I want to forget it. It didn't make me sick at all, though Mother kept me at home from school for several days. She wasn't sure what sort of a snake it was, you see, so she had everything attended to. I'm going on hikes and everything just the same, though I'll not try to pick a flower without looking. That serpent ought to have been in winter quarters and wasn't."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you going in for athletics?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Some of it. I'm going to swim, like Betty Lee, and then I ride, though I may not enter their course here. I play hockey on the ice, but I don't know about it here. You have regular class teams, don't you, and have to be elected in some way before you can be on one?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, in a way you're chosen."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, I'm not an applicant for anything. Lucia smiled but tossed her head up a little proudly, and a look was exchanged between two of the sophomores. If Lucia played hockey in Switzerland, she might not be a bad person to have on the team. Perhaps she could be persuaded to"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "for it. They would get her to play on a"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What is a mere hockey team to the Queen of Sheba?"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and the Eagles scoring both by forward passes and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It was awful, Louise said, but"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Maybe the Lions have it coming to them, said Louise."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And it isn't good for a high school to get too cocky. We've got about all the cups there are--so let the Eagle scream this time!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, your football is so exciting, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It makes me think of the bull fights in Spain!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, and you used to have thumbs down in your Roman theatres, too,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We have a big picture of the Coliseum at home,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We had lions, then,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Lions, rah!"
}
] |
34728
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "the hockey team. Betty had been hurt a little in the try-out, and Peggy insisted that Mathilde did it on purpose, but Betty refused to believe it and played happily on what they themselves called the"
}
] |
34728
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't worry, Kathryn, she said to Gypsy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Whether Mathilde intended that or not doesn't matter, I'll watch after this and somebody has to be on the second team, so why shouldn't it be I? Moreover, I had everything to learn about hockey, after all, and I think Mathilde has played."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She said she has, but I don't believe it. There's favoritism. Mathilde for some reason stands in with one of the athletic teachers and I saw her talking with the others that day. I'm not going to tell you who she is, though. Do you mind?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'd rather not know, though of course I'm curious. Tell me after the match!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let's beat the first team, girls,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now don't let the fact that the second team beat you discourage you at all, girls, said the athletic teacher who had watched the game."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was a close game and let it make you all the more careful against the other teams in your class contest. I'm not favoring one team more than another; but I want to encourage every one to do its very best."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The freshman team hasn't had enough practice, said Carolyn in the gym before the games. The girls were putting on their customary equipment and donning sweaters, for it was cold though clear outside, with the ground hard, yet free from snow. Unless it rained, the climate in which Lyon High rejoiced was good for outdoor sports almost until Christmas."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So I think that the freshmen will be out of it and the juniors and sophomores play against each other at the last. The seniors are too sure and they have some weak material. I've been watching their practice games."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "she said. Many sophomore rooters were on hand when the games were played, and sure enough, it was the juniors against the sophomores at the last. Mathilde was hit by one of the hockey sticks early in the games and Betty took her place, much to Mathilde's discomfiture. Her"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good, Betty, said Lucia, when Betty was put in."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm sorry for Mathilde, but she makes so many wild plays and isn't quick enough. Now let's beat the juniors all to pieces, as you girls say!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm going to tell my uncle how you played, Betty! she exclaimed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wanted Mother to come and see me do something, but she wouldn't. She only hoped I wouldn't get hurt and it wouldn't turn out like the hike! How's that for a mother that came over here on purpose to make an American out of me?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Did she, honestly, Lucia,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course she did and I like it now, only I shall always want my father, too."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, you write him that you were 'the noblest Roman of them all,' according to me, and I _know_!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will, Betty, and Lucia's smile was a happy one."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come on, said she,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That is dear of you, Lucia, and I would, only it would look too much like crowing over her because I was put in in her place. Besides, she'd be happier anyway for you to think of her--by yourself."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You always think of everything, Betty. How do you do it? I like you, Betty Lee!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You're pretty nice, yourself, Lucia,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She had discussed them frankly with a few of the girls, those she knew well, perfectly sincere girls and her good friends. Outside of that little circle she had been careful what she said. She had been included with Lucia, Mathilde, Carolyn and Peggy in attentions from the juniors of the Kappa Upsilons. That there was a small addition to that"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, Marcella, I think anything that you belong to would have to be all right, she answered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've got to _rush_, Marcella, to catch that car!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What, sir? that Dick looked up from his plate to say rudely,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What's eating you Betty? and Doris said"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you mad at anybody?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, no, Doris! I've just been thinking about something."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Betty has great powers of concentration, said Mr. Lee, with a twinkle in his eyes,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So it is, Daddy. I've got a funny little problem to solve, that's all. I'm sorry I was so absorbed. But the twins were telling you all about their affairs anyhow----"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When last you heard anything, laughed Dick."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We hadn't said a word for at least a full minute and a half!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was Amy Lou, then,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I didn't do anything,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mercy no, darling. You're all right. It's old Betty that isn't much good as a mother substitute. Isn't that so?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I love Mother and I love Betty, too. She made the dessert just like Grandma."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Have you, what is it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I had an invitation this afternoon and I sort of suspect you had, too. Did you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why--I don't know. I'm not sure just what you mean. Perhaps I would have had one if I hadn't had to rush for a car and get home. Mother was invited out for dinner and I cooked ours."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, did you? I wish I knew how! Well, I just have to see you some way. Could you leave for just a little while if I drove over for you!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll ask. I've lessons well enough up, I suppose. I got most of them at school, and if you're thinking of the same thing I am, I'd surely like to talk it over with you. Hold the wire a moment."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Father, excuse me, but Carolyn wants to know if I can drive over with her if she comes for me. We have--something to decide and it's--important."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is she driving, this late?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, no. She wouldn't be allowed. She will be driven."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very well, then, but do not stay late."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No. I have my lessons pretty well, Father."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My, such preparations!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't you like 'em?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Indeed I do! I'm so thankful to be invited over, for I couldn't study or do anything else,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tell me why you were preoccupied, Betty,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, _you_ tell what your problem is."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "said Carolyn, and Betty"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's just because you're nicer than I am, said Carolyn,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You may not think what I have to tell you is much, but it was Marcella's manner and I saw that she wanted to talk to me,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, that was it. It was one of the other girls that talked to me, though. But she told me that some of my special friends were being asked, or would be asked to join the Kappa Upsilons. It _would_ be fun, Betty!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, it would; but there's a lot of things to be considered. In the first place it _is_, really, a high school sorority. The girls don't even pretend that it isn't, or practically the same thing. How do they get around it, Carolyn?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By having people outside of high school belong to it and claiming that it is just a society and not a high school affair."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I see. I've been trying out Mother and Father on high school sororities and all I can get out of them is surprise that I should mention it at all. 'How can they have sororities if they are forbidden?' asks my dear mother!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes--my father the same--but Mother knows. She just laughs. I didn't tell her I'd been bid today. Well, now, listen, Betty. We agree that it would be fun. So it would. That's that. It sounds well to be a Kappa Upsilon and we can go around if we like and be as snooty as any of them. But they've dropped Kathryn since the party, for one thing. She did not mention it, though of course she has noticed it, but when I asked her about something that I was in on she didn't know a thing about it and looked at me as _funny_--I don't think it was nice of them, to pay attention and then drop a person like a hot cake."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No. That isn't like Marcella Waite, though."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Marcella is a fine girl, but there are two or three that are different. Oh, they're nice enough. A body could have them for friends, but they take up little things. Kathryn may have said something that wasn't according to their notion. Kathryn is pretty independent, you know."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So am I,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, but with a little difference, and then you are prominent now in athletics. They all expect you to win something in the girls' swimming meet and you are going to make the basketball team."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Am I? laughed Betty,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then my sister said that the girls were afraid that they might not get bid to one in the University, that a bird in the hand was worth two in the bush and that some of them thought a girl was more likely to be asked into a sonority in the University if she had belonged to a high school sorority."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Does Louise belong to a sorority over there?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, and my sister, too, but they were talking about some of their friends that didn't get in and how unhappy they were. That's the worst of it. Louise was asked by my sister's sorority."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Was Louise in a high school sorority?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No--she said that she wouldn't be. There wasn't any one started that she wanted to join when she was a freshman or sophomore and then she got into so much responsibility in the G. A. A. and cared for athletics so much more, I guess. But Louise didn't say a word about herself. I got all about her through Letty. Letitia didn't go to high school much. She was sick some and it was better for her to go to private school. My Dad's the one that insisted on _my_ going to Lyon High."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm certainly glad that you did, said Betty, with emphasis."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm glad to hear all this, Carolyn, and Louise's idea. There's another thing. I can't see that it makes much difference on our 'social position,' outside of just a few girls that we like, like Marcella, because there's such a _mob_ of folks in this big high school. The sororities _can't_ have so much influence, outside of their own little group, and we could just as easily have our own friends. There are such _loads_ of nice girls in the Girl Reserves, for instance, and in the swimming and games who cares what sorority a girl belongs to, or knows, for that matter!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, they work for their own, Betty. You'd be surprised at the things _some_ of the girls will do to be represented in prominent affairs."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Does it get them anywhere?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sometimes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you know who are going in with the Kappa Upsilons? asked Betty, talking off the oiled paper from her candy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Carolyn, she said, by way of parenthesis,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's all right, said Carolyn, removing the paper from her piece."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Perhaps we need to do some _thinking_!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes--but I've thought and thought. What I need to do is deciding."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Help me decide, too."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wouldn't dare take the responsibility."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It makes a lot of difference what _you_ do, Betty. I'll not care so much to be in it unless you are."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Carolyn!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's so, Betty Lee! But you asked me who were being asked or who were going in, which isn't quite the same thing. I think Peggy Pollard will, and Lucia has said she would. They are crazy to get her into it--the daughter of a count and countess!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, but Lucia is good enough to be asked on her own account, and she can be pardoned, perhaps, for being 'snooty' in social matters."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't see why!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I mean because of the way she has been brought up. Don't you suppose if you'd had family and wealth drilled into you and all that way of living it would make you different?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes--I imagine it would. Lucia's been everywhere."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Suppose we sleep over it, suggested Betty."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've got to make a list, I think, of arguments for and against. The biggest argument _for_ is Marcella and how good it is of them to want us. A person hates to refuse and seem not to appreciate being asked. And then you run the chance of their unfriendliness, too."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, said Carolyn, with a frown;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hope not. I had the best time at her party!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So did I. Oh, by the way, Mathilde is invited and there isn't any chance of her not accepting. Julia--I may as well tell you who asked me--Julia Hickok said that Mathilde is so fond of Lucia Coletti and that they think she, Mathilde, will make a very loyal sorority sister."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Lucia could handle Mathilde, if necessary, she replied."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lucia is a girl of some force, Father says. But on which side of the arguments for and against shall we put Mathilde's being in the sorority?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It wouldn't make so much difference to me. I could get along with 'Finney'--I'm not like Dotty."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think you could get along with anybody, Carolyn, you are such a dear. But there it is. I think 'getting along' with sorority sisters that one did not choose for intimate friends would hinder me in my 'great ambitions' in other lines. But I've simply got to sleep on it, Carolyn."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Probably I'd better, too, but we haven't much time, Betty. I told Julia I'd tell her in the morning. I had to ask what Mother and Father thought. She laughed at me for a goose, then told me that I mustn't make that an excuse. I told her that I thought they would let me do what I wanted to do, but that I ought to tell them at least. I hope that she didn't take that as a promise. Away from Julia and talking it over with you makes me not so enthusiastic. Call me up in the morning, Betty, if you've decided before you go to school."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will have decided all right, said Betty."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's a thing you can't put off. I'll decide, if I have to draw cuts!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Go in for it, Betty; please do."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll think about it, promised Betty."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's so that most of our hockey team want to play basketball, too."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm not going into a thing that leaves out a lot of my special friends, she said to herself as she dressed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Lyon High is too big for it to make any difference to me. The question of sororities in college can wait. I may go away to school or be in the University here. Carolyn's so sweet it won't make any difference if she does go into it; and I like Kathryn so much; and if Peggy changes, I can't help it."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's Carolyn, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It must be something important for her to call you at breakfast time."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, Carolyn?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Betty, Peggy called up last night and she is going to join and is crazy to have me do it!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, Carolyn, why not, if you want to?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I told old Peggy that I was trying to make up my mind but I didn't mention you at all. I thought you'd rather not. She did, though, and said they wanted to have you. Lucia, too, had asked them if they had asked you, with the idea that it would be a lot more attractive to her if they did!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That was very nice of Lucia."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, Betty--have you decided?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, Carolyn."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That doesn't sound as if you were going to do it. If I know you, you would have said something enthusiastic about Peggy and Lucia. Dare I ask you _what_ you have decided?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am putting off telling you till the last minute, you see, _because_ of what you are saying about Peggy and Lucia and how you may feel yourself about it. Please don't be influenced by what I do or don't do. That sounds conceited, doesn't it? But really I'm not a bit about it. You just consulted me and seemed to care what I thought about it, you know!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "For pity's sake, Betty, don't apologize! And I can't wait a minute longer to know!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All right, then, said Betty, with no chuckle this time."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I knew when I woke up that I wasn't going to join. All the reasons against it win, Carolyn."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I just about knew how you would decide. I've got to think it over between now and the time I get to school. I didn't know at all when I woke up what I was going to do. Peggy's enthusiasm last night shook me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why shouldn't it? You've known Peggy for a long time. And don't think that your belonging to any sorority will make me think any less of you. That will be just _one little organization_ that we aren't in together. There are plenty of societies in Lyon High, Carolyn."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes. All right, Betty. I've got to think it out myself, just like you. See you at lunch."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Just a minute, Betty Lee. Are you rushing off to catch a car this time?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, indeed. I've all the time in the world--not even anything of the G. A. A. this afternoon."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then perhaps you can come along with me and some of the other girls and have dinner down town. Lucia is going, and perhaps we can get Carolyn and Peggy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I couldn't do that, Marcella, but thank you so much for asking me. I have to go home."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I could take you home to dress. The car is out here this time. But I'll not urge you if you have other things on hand for tonight. I think you know what I want to see you about. You said something sweet about Kappa Upsilon yesterday, so I've been hoping that you would be quite ready to say yes about joining us. What do you think?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you mean that you are asking me to join?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Just that."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is so good of you, Marcella. I did think about it for I thought that you would scarcely have said that to me if you hadn't meant something of the kind. And it would look so good to be in anything that you are in. I've enjoyed knowing you so much!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "But when it comes to joining any high school sorority you know that there are a lot of things to think about."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not so important as you think. It is just a lot of fun for the most part."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know, and that part of it is lovely. But I decided this morning that it wasn't best and if I _should_ be asked by any of them not to do it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That is final, then?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes. It has to be, though I can't tell you how I appreciate it to be chosen by the Kappa Upsilons."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That is all right, Betty Lee. I'm sorry, though, and I think you'll regret it--not that we'll do anything to make you regret it, you understand."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My, no! I can't imagine _your_ doing anything mean, Marcella."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thanks for your good opinion. By the way, my brother was home the other day and asked what had become of the little girl that was Titania at my Hallowe'en party."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Did I meet him? Your brother?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, of course, but--that's so--perhaps you didn't know who he was. He had to make a train and could not stay for the unmasking or the refreshments, except to eat something back in the kitchen! He was the 'Pirate of Penzance.'"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh! exclaimed Betty, rather overwhelmed. She certainly did remember the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pirate of Penzance!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Doesn't your brother live at home?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh yes; but he is at college in the East. He just happened to be at home, unexpectedly, so I worked him in to help out and I thought he looked splendid in that costume I got up for him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He surely did."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It was a pity you shouldn't have seen him unmasked, though. He's quite handsome at times, though I'm probably prejudiced."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't think you should say that. Besides, it's a good thing to be proud of your brothers and sisters."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have two brothers, said Marcella,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "We don't talk about those things, Doris,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why not?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Just--because."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You could tell at home, if you'd been asked and were going to join."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If I were going to join,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What is this? asked their father."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The high school students are not allowed to have sororities, Doris."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They have 'em just the same, Papa. I'm going to join one, that is if I get asked."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Indeed?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You're not likely to be asked, said Betty,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, now, Papa, they get around it all right! I've heard all about it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How you know more than I did is a wonder, Doris, said Betty."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There must be some one of your friends that knows the ins and outs."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There is. She has a sister who is a senior."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How about it, Betty? asked Mr. Lee, interested."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Have you been approached on the subject?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, sir. I was asked to join a good one, nice girls anyhow, but I decided not to go into any. I'll wait till I get into college, if I go, and if anybody wants me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There is a reason for there being no sororities in high schools, said he."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In the smaller schools particularly it makes trouble."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Really, Dorry, I'd like to tell you; but it wouldn't be nice to do it now. You might forget and say something about it. Will you be satisfied if I say that I will tell you some time?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I suppose I'll have to be."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Aw, she'd be saying, 'My sister was asked to join one of the sororities!'"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I _will not_!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That will do, children, said Mrs. Lee."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is Betty's affair. She probably feels uncomfortable enough to refuse an attractive invitation."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Somebody's calling up Betty!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Carolyn!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You 'almost did?' Maybe you should have done it, Carolyn. Sure you'll be happy over it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is good of you to tell me all about it. Yes, Marcella is the greatest attraction. I hope--what is that? Yes."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Marcella Waite, Dick, said Doris in a low tone."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's the Kappa Upsilons! I knew it!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Doris, said Mrs. Lee, pleasantly but firmly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All right, Mamma--but I can't help hearing what the other kids talk about."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The other children, you mean."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes'm."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Still on the honor roll in spite of athletics?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes'm, said Betty, with an engaging smile."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You see, hikes and swimming and practice games are in the nature of recreation. I go home and rest and eat good meals and then I can get my lessons all right."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Aw, Betty is just smart, Grandma, said Dick."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Couldn't all of them do it."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "when it came to lifting the ball to and through a basket. Some one who overheard called them the Jumping-Jacks and the name stuck till the girls considered it"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "enough to be adopted. The"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "was a large one, with a number of girls who played nearly as well as those on what was considered the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There were a few jealousies to be handled, as Betty well knew. How she had made the position of captain she scarcely knew yet. Carolyn told her that she was the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "as she said her father called it in politics."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sort of a compromise?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes. Everybody knew you weren't after it, and there was such a mess this time, sorting out for the first and second team. So you're it. Now see that we beat everybody. I'm only playing basketball on your account, Betty."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't you really like it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, but I don't enjoy a big contest. I'll do my best, though, to make my part of the second team so good that I'll get called in to help out the first squad."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Good for you. If I have anything to say, you'll get a chance to play with me!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It sometimes saves the day Betty, said Kathryn."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you remember last year how Freddy Fisher had a chance to put the ball through that basket from 'way across the floor! We certainly have missed Freddy this year, haven't we? But Ted Dorrance is playing basketball and he's good."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is that so? He wasn't on the football squad."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No. His mother draws a line on football and said she'd take him out of school, or send him away somewhere to school if he played. But he's grand in basketball. Didn't you see that write-up of him in the _Roar_ last week?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I missed getting that number, Kathryn. Have you a copy?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes. I'll show it to you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is his speciality?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, in the first game he made some under the basket shots that were just in time to make the score. It beat the other team. It's a shame you didn't see the account of the game. It's all in the paper."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All I knew was that we beat, said Betty."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I didn't even see the evening paper at home. That was the night I was studying for a test and forgot everything else. It was my only chance, for we were doing things all day Saturday."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ted has a new girl, Betty, they say."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Really--who?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, one of the junior girls that he is taking all around to the parties and everything. He had her out here at the school for the minstrel show the other night. That was real funny. Did you go?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No. I can't go to everything and I just _have_ to go to the musical things. Mother and I went to the Symphony Concert the last time."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's funny Chet didn't ask you. He's been hanging around so much of late, Betty."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Mother wouldn't let me go out at night with the boys yet, answered Betty."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's all right for parties and picnics and things like that, it seems, but not for shows and things. Mothers are funny; but I have a very nice one and I suppose she knows why she lets me do some things and says no about others."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My mother says that she hasn't the least idea what to do with me about anything in 'these days,' but she hopes to take care of me, if she has my 'co-operation.'"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Our poor mothers! Well, I rather guess it's up to us to co-operate then. Why, if you won't tell, Chet did ask me and I couldn't go with him, but he wasn't mad at all. Mother just told me to put the blame on her, so I did, explaining, you know. Then I felt as I told you about choosing the things I can go to myself."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Chet is a pretty good sort of a boy, of course. Chauncey said the other day he thought he'd cut him out with you, Betty, and I told him to go and do it. Kathryn slipped a foot into a shoe and stood up laughing."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'd like you real well as a sister, though I didn't go so far as to say that to Chauncey."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I should _hope not_! said Betty, with emphasis."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's none of it as serious as all that, Kathryn, but I don't mind being liked and being invited, do you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What girl does? But I don't want a real 'case' yet."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mercy, no! And Mother says I mustn't accept invitations from boys that I don't know anything about, no matter how nice they seem here. There are some drawbacks to numbers after all."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, but you can usually tell about boys and girls, too, and it's easy enough to find out about them. Dad says that he is a 'social democrat,' but I notice that he is terribly particular about my company."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We have such a lot of things going on at school that it is easy enough to make friends and be with boys and girls you like without bothering about dates any more important than meeting your 'boy friend,' as Dick calls it, at the picnic or at the ball game. Carolyn's parties are always such fun. I want to have one the spring vacation, though that seems a long way off, doesn't it!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm having one in two weeks, on Friday night, Betty, so save that date, please. I'll have a time getting ready for it during school, so please come early and help me, will you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course I will. It will be fun. What do you want me to do?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll tell you in plenty of time. I want it a _real_ party and I'm going to invite Lucia, of course, so it must make a good impression on our lady from the Italian nobility."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Lucia won't be critical, Kathryn. She said that she liked you. You were 'so sincere.'"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Did she? I like Lucia, too, though some things made me a little tired at first."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Just think of the handicap, Kathryn, of not being born an American! Betty was grinning, but she really felt that Lucia had not had a fair chance to be like a girl who was born in the"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "but Chet, with apparent candor, said that he liked"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and didn't care who knew it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have to have a little social life, said he."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's a poor sophomore that can't take a girl out once in a while."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Betty told her that too much confidence was a"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "but Kathryn told her that determination to beat was"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Watch that freshman guarding, Betty. She's rough. We'll look out for her and see that nothing is done that isn't seen! Say--that was a good play! Did you _see that_?"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well! cried Betty."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm not a prophet, and that is that!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm glad we don't meet the juniors or seniors first,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tomorrow we play against the freshmen, don't we?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, and what did Miss Orme do but give us a test, a last hour test, mind you, just before the game. I told her, but she looked at me in perfect disgust. 'Do you think we should dismiss school on account of the games?' she asked."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, well, you'll be less excited for something else to think about. Perhaps it will not be hard."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And perhaps it will, Lucia. Be glad you aren't in her class. But that is a good idea about thinking of something else. I'm gone if I worry. And I've been getting that work so far. I'll just take it all as sport. But I do want my team to play well."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They'll beat the freshmen, I think, though those freshmen aren't to be despised."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Indeed they aren't."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "We're going to 'lick' the sophomores,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't be too sure. We're out to win, cheerily answered Betty. She gathered her girls together and told them of some points she had noted about the freshman playing and they entered the game with confidence, though warned not to be too sure. The"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "freshman was taken out after some too apparent fouls due to her performances, and the final score was eighteen to three in favor of the sophomores. They had won their first game at least, Betty said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now send up the score, girls, as high as you can with every game. No telling what we can do if we try!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look out, Amy Lou, and don't get hit with the ball!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Forget the crowd, girls, and whether your nose gets shiny or not, advised Betty."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're a graceful lot anyhow and usually succeed in avoiding a terrible scramble. But remember that we _have to beat_ those juniors!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll keep an eye out, Betty, said Kathryn."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mathilde doesn't care for the sophomores or anything but that old sorority, and she doesn't like your being captain, though I hate to tell you that."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't worry. I know it. We'll just keep awake and I'm glad to say that it's Miss Fox who's keeping an eye out this time, besides the referee. But it's going to be a fast game and no telling what may happen."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "as a freshman girl told Mrs. Lee. She knew few of the correct expressions, but enough to indicate results."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The point is to put the ball through their own basket, Mrs. Lee and they 'make the goal' and 'score.'"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "If we can do that, Betty, whispered Kathryn,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I--we--are taking Mathilde out, Betty. She is not guilty of any foul, but we think that she purposely lost an advantage. I'm not going to risk it. Put in Mary Emma Howland for the rest of the game. If the juniors beat us they want to do it fairly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You put Foxy up to that, I know!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I didn't even see what you did, or didn't do, Mathilde,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's so stupid when nobody can score, said one."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "These girls managed to do it some way in spite of good interference."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The _idea_ that you beat us, Betty, said Marcella with a smile."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I just declared that you never would!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, we didn't beat you!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You might as well. We couldn't beat _you_, anyhow, which was terrible! I think we were a little better in our guarding, but you overcame that disadvantage by those long shots that we did not dream you could make. You and Kathryn are stars, Betty. I'm sorry we did not get you in Kappa Upsilon. What was the trouble with Mathilde, Betty?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't know, Marcella. You'll have to ask Miss Fox or the referee. I didn't see anything."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I imagine you have an idea, though, said Marcella."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well all hail to the Jingery Jumping Jacks! The Lucky Leapers are forced to give them credit, though we don't want to do it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Aren't you a great jollier, Marcella Waite! I'm glad it's over, but I'd rather somebody would beat. Still, there are things to be said in favor of a tie, provided a body couldn't win the championship outright. Oh, do you suppose they'll make us play another game?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let _us_ have another chance, you mean, winked Marcella."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, the big excitement is over and they'll not do it, though I'd love to."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The sophomore team will be ready, said Betty,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sensible idea. You make me hungry at the thought. Oh, Mathilde! Wait!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "DATE"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Chet Dorrance had the best of excuses to make arrangements with Betty for a snow date, as he called it, and she promised to go with him and the rest on the next day after school."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Make it a regular date, Betty, said he,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "engagements. There had not been"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "everybody claimed, and great was the enthusiasm. Great drifts edged the walks at Kathryn's and Betty came early to help, as she had promised. She, Chauncey and Kathryn had a brilliant idea and made a big snow man on the front porch, where he would be well lit up by the porch light at the arrival of the company."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We'll have to have something or other outdoors,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's Chauncey's birthday, said Kathryn,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll not betray him, laughed Betty."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But why not have a snow fight? Listen, Gypsy. Those high piles of snow along the walk you know, why not use them and make a fort or two?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It'll spoil everybody's good clothes, though, said he."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you suppose the girls will come in those thin things they wear?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not tonight, Chauncey, because I told some of them that we'd probably do something outdoors, and the rest will have a pretty good suspicion that we will."
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hello, Betty Lee, said he."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I haven't seen you except at a distance for some time. Congratulations for not letting the junior team beat you in basketball. Those girls ought to feel crushed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But don't, added Betty."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Congratulations yourself on your own basketball record. I was so surprised when I heard you were on the team. I haven't missed a game that was played here if I could help it. You've become a star."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "According to the _Lyon's Roar_, answered Ted, in derision."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They're hard up for somebody to write up as a star if they have to take me!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your modesty is very becoming,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, no, though Mother and I go to some of them, said Betty, not dreaming that Ted meant to ask her. But she was mortified at the thought of what she considered her"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh! she said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why--Mother never lets me go to anything down in the city with anybody; but I think she would let me go with you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hope she will, smiled Ted."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let me know, Betty."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will tomorrow, said Betty, feeling uncomfortable, as girls do, for fear the boys will think them too childish. But Betty had confidence in her mother and she knew well that the ban would be off when she grew older. Oh, how _wonderful_ to be going somewhere with Ted Dorrance! She looked so happy, though full of fun, as she helped Kathryn serve, that more than one boy looked her way and thought that Betty Lee was a"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let's give him a cooky,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, she said to Miss Fox."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hockey and basketball were enough. I'm out for swimming, and that is all I can do, Miss Fox, if I get my lessons. Oh, of course hikes and all the points I can make when I'm not needed at home."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I like to hear you say that, Betty. Too many girls don't want to help at all at home."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't do enough, Betty replied--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't care, Mother, said Betty,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You can make your own excuses, Betty."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course. But if the boys think you don't want to go with them it makes them mad and you won't get asked again."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And that would be terrible, laughed her mother, who had little fear but that Betty would have enough"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, it would,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How would it do just to say that you are allowed very few engagements, especially at night?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I might work out something else. You should have seen--or heard--how _dumb_ it sounded, what I said to Ted!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There he is, my daughter,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Betty's beginning rather young, said Mr. Lee thoughtfully, coming in from the garage where he had been putting in his car."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That is a good car young Dorrance is driving. Do you suppose it is his own?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very likely, though I do not know, either."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There were some others, so I imagine it is a 'theatre party.'"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All the better--but I'd like to keep Betty from all that till she is older. I shall, too. She is obedient and sensible. We shall have this the exception rather than the rule."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm glad to leave it to you, Mother,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll warrant,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You liked that as much as I did, didn't you? Do you do much with your violin now?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Scarcely a bit, she whispered,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A little bird told me,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "JUST LIKE A FISH"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look at Betty! cried Kathryn, who was not taking part in the swimming meet, but was a part of the audience."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Isn't she graceful? What a dive! Betty's a regular fish for the water!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She went into the water like a bird _catching_ a fish,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes; but she says she likes the water and feels at home in it. She is a natural swimmer, I suppose, if there is such a thing."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wasn't that _splendid_? Betty is getting better and better!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hope she won't do that again, though,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, that's perfectly safe for Betty, Mrs. Lee. They wouldn't let her try it if she weren't used to it and Betty can just do almost anything. Besides, it isn't as close to the board when she does it as it looks. If you were right up at that end you'd see."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I see. I have heard Betty talk about all this so much, but I must say that all the remarks about this and that sort of a stroke and the different kinds of diving have rather gone over my head. I've not been able to get to the little meets the girls have had. This is delightful, the big pool and all the excitement. No wonder the girls like it, but Betty did not seem to be excited over it or care about taking first place. I wonder why?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Betty's pretty level-headed, laughed Carolyn."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She's getting ready to do big things in her next two years, you see, big things for the G. A. A. So she isn't going to get all worked up now. I shouldn't wonder if she did get the best record for the diving, though. Those other girls weren't half so good on that event, though that senior girl from North High is a wonder in swimming. Wait till those speed tests--or events--come off and watch her. Without her cap Betty'd be a goldfish, Kathryn!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Amy Lou, said she,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, yes, soberly said Amy Lou, watching the next group of contestants come in from out behind the curtains and stand in readiness."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm going to be a G. A. A."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The whole association, Amy Lou?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, said she."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can swim now a little, up at Grandma's, can't I Mamma?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, dear--but watch and keep still. The girls are going to start."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "the program said. Then there were a"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and Carolyn explained that"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "meant"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Will Betty try to win on speed?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I doubt it. Betty's working on trying to do everything just right, and grace and ease in the water, and keeping your head, I guess, from what I hear her say. You see, you have to do your breathing a certain way, though that doesn't seem to be any trouble to Betty."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It looks painful to me,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Watch Betty and you won't think so."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They turn sideways and swallow the air, don't they?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Just about, laughed Carolyn."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here comes Betty again, Amy Lou."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Push off and coast across pool for speed and to Betty's surprise she was first across the pool. Later there was a"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "event, in which Betty did well, her best, but was not first. That ended her part in the meet and she was satisfied. She took her shower and dressed without watching the rest, though Carolyn exclaimed afterward when she found that Betty had"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, said Betty,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Going to take the life-saving tests, Betty?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, not now, Lucia. Next year is time enough. I _might_ get ready for it, but I'm just learning a lot of things and trying the endurance stunts a little. Perhaps I'll swim across to Italy one of these days."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's what I'd like to do right now, though I prefer going on a steamer. I'm homesick to see my father,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Will you be going over this summer?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No. Mother says not,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Betty, said Lucia,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mother is going to entertain for me this spring and you are the first one I want to invite. I haven't had you over at all."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I haven't had you either, said Betty."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We just couldn't manage parties some way this year with all that has been going on at school and Mother so busy and Father working so hard, too. You were the stranger to be invited."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I know perfectly well that it was Mother's place to show some attention to your father and mother. But Mother has been considerably upset--about some of our affairs. She's been in the social columns of the papers all right, but she's not done any of the entertaining herself."
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "We belong to a different 'aristocracy,' Betty, said Mrs. Lee."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We, too, can have a certain influence in the community, a good one, I hope, and a little circle of pleasant friends. One is always running across kindred spirits."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Carolyn and Kathryn are my chief ones,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course you will not repeat to any of the girls Lucia's reference to the countess and her being 'upset' about some of her affairs. It is important to your father that nothing we do is a mistake in reference to that family. We have made no mistake in waiting for them to take the initiative. It was a little odd for Lucia to be so frank, but she has her worries, too, no doubt, and felt that she could trust you as a confidante."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She can, replied Betty."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wonder what sort of a party it will be? All the sorority will be there, of course, and probably ever so many girls that I do not know. Lucia has some friends in the private schools, but she likes Lyon High now and wouldn't leave it for any other school. You should have heard her tell me about how some of the girls tried to get her away. 'No, no, no,' she said, in that rapid Italian way she has, 'I like this big school and everything they do. I've been in a private school. I shall have my high school diploma to show my father!' I imagine the count, then, doesn't object so much to Lucia's going to school over here."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "His troubles are in another line, I presume."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, whatever their troubles are, I'm glad Lucia came. She's _very_ interesting."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "on honor night, that last function and climax of the G. A. A. The girls had wanted her to play baseball, but she"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "to get into the junior orchestra another year. Ted, who had been somewhat of an attraction, to be sure, would not be in the senior orchestra, but Betty liked the idea, with or without any interesting boy. He had not invited Betty to accompany him again to any school or city entertainment, but he had asked her to a picnic with a few chosen friends and she had had a wonderful time, she reported to the girls. However, Ted said that Chet and some of the other boys had said"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hands off"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, the Dorrance boys keep you in the family, don't they?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, no,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "now, and Mrs. Lee reported a large gathering of charming ladies, some of them not so attractive or cultured, but many of them simple and interesting with the results of many opportunities for travel and reading, study and pleasure."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The countess herself is very delightful as a hostess, Betty, said Mrs. Lee."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I feel sure that if she entertains for Lucia it will be a gathering planned in every detail."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "by the arrival of invitations for Lucia's friends, invitations with a"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, dear, why aren't I Lucia's friend and a little older? sighed Doris, whimsically, examining the pretty invitation."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'd always keep this, Betty, but if you don't care for it, let me have it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You can borrow it any time you want it, but it has to go among the archives, Dorry. I'm sorry you can't go; but it's very likely, if we stay here and Father is in the same business, that you can go there some time."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But that isn't now,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Budd Leroy, also, who had shown recent signs of being interested in Betty Lee, made a similar remark about meeting her at Lucia's, though he did not suggest himself as her partner."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you suppose the countess will wear her 'tie-airy?'"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do countesses have tiaras? asked Betty."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hope whatever she has she will wear it. What is the use of being a countess if you can't have some sign of it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sure Mike,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We're taking care of my sorority and your little crowd, Betty, which is my crowd, too, though they don't seem to know it since I joined the sorority. I didn't think it would make that difference."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you really care about the girls, Lucia?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course I do."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then I'll tell them, if you don't mind."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tell away,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are particularly welcome, Miss Lee, said he."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have not forgotten how you and your father looked after Lucia and my sister for me."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I believe, I'm quite sure, indeed, that this is the fair Titania, said he, as Marcella introduced him to Betty and told him that he was supposed to be Betty's partner"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you know how to play this?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, I don't,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then come on, said Lawrence."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know a secluded and not too secluded spot. Let's talk. They'll let me do it because I'm not in school with the rest of you, and already I know Lucia very well."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come on, Larry, get into the game after treasure, Larry waved a careless hand and said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've found her."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Really, Miss Lee, I have wanted to meet you since that Hallowe'en at our house."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It has been sometime, Mr. Waite,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, but I've been away at college except at the Christmas vacation. I'm home on a rush trip now. Father wanted me to come, a business matter in which I could help him. I wanted to ask you if you minded that little affair. I was around looking for things for Marcella, and I took a chance of frightening you, I know, when I lit that candle; but I had recognized you, that is, as Titania, and I had to make a train and wanted to see what you really looked like. You were very good to take off your mask."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was just great fun, Mr. Waite. I should think I didn't mind! It would have been very stupid just to have your candle go out and not to have a single thing happen, not even to look into the mirror."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was fun for both of us, then. I told at college that I had looked over a girl's shoulder in a mirror at Hallowe'en and the fellows said, 'Beware, Larry.'"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm not a bit dangerous, laughed Betty, though pleased. Betty was modern enough not to be entirely unsophisticated and she did think that this was what the girls called his"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But it was a jolly one, anyhow. She could safely have a good time with Marcella's brother. He reminded her how as Titania and the Pirate of Penzance they had tripped"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Everybody and everything were lovely, Dorry. I wish you could have been with me. And the Countess Coletti is a peach!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Isn't it a pity, sighed Doris,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That is so, thoughtfully replied Betty, but she was thinking just then of the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pirate of Penzance."
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Have you any thing to say?"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "(I am told at the last), to make it plain that my Author, Publisher, and Artist do not represent real people! So be it, then: the men, as also women, in this unromantic comedy of married life are all imagined; but in declaring them not to be individuals, I would not be thought to admit that they are non-existent ... or universal. Such men have been and will be--self-centred authors, unscrupulous publishers, vulgar-minded artists--nor does a paragon make the best food for fiction: but there are also Others. Logic still permits one to avoid Libel without confessing Treachery, and I am little likely to"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "WHY MEN MARRY III."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "WHY WOMEN WED"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course, said Kenneth Boyd, with the abrupt conviction of one whose argument is off the point at issue,"
}
] |
33103
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You married men, he cried, turning the attack,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, said the other gently."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We hate to see them miserable and know they'll never realise man's one chance of happiness till it's too late."
}
] |
33103
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I can always be turned out. There's no real reason why we should live together."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The first sensible remark you've made,"
}
] |
33103
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's quite obvious. You ought to marry!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, my dear fellow? Because you're stagnating--because it is life's second stage--because you've got beyond the first--because each of your books is exactly like the last----"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't see that, he said in a hard voice, almost sulkily."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As a matter of fact, several of the critics went out of their way to call _The Bread of Idleness_ new, original, etcetera."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, replied Kenneth Boyd, who secretly enjoyed wounding just deeply enough his friend's self-esteem;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I still don't see, even so, Hubert icily replied,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Because to widen your art, you must widen your idea of woman. If you really know one woman, they say, then you can know them all."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If you know them all, as I do, by study, he answered,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That sort of remark, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dear old Kenneth! and there was pity in his voice."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Perhaps I should, if I knew nothing of them really. But I'm afraid I know too much."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, it's a pity, Hubert, he said gaily, as though he had abandoned his attempt and could afford by now to laugh at it,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, shut up,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then, went on the remorseless friend,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You must think me a conceited fool, Hubert put in,"
}
] |
33103
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All the same, he said, falling back into the old vein,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "(and now he shamelessly threw off the mask),"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Splendid, splendid! You ought to write advertisements; I'm sure the Garden City would pay a big premium. Title, 'The New Home!'"
}
] |
33103
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am different, though, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You've no idea of it at all,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And as to loneliness, Hubert went on, utterly ignoring him,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I see too many people as it is. I'm always booked. I absolutely curse them sometimes when I feel I haven't seen them for a century and they'll be getting huffy. Constant companion and all that stuff, indeed? No, thanks! Shall I tell you _my_ idea of bliss?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This, I suppose?"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, answered Hubert,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And thank God you're alone?"
}
] |
33103
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "WHY MEN MARRY"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Heads I do, and tails I don't, he mutters weakly, groping in his pocket. Up spins the penny. Heads it is!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Heads I do, he murmurs once again; and adds, pathetically firm,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But all the same, I don't think I will."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Heads or"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tails,"
}
] |
33103
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Papers, in fact, that liked neither his novels nor his letters, had ceased to notice the first-named, hoping to avoid the last: and he was glad of this decision. Letters from unknown readers were shown to all his friends, who also had the privilege of reading the longest reviews, left out upon his mantel-piece; though when they took them up he would always protest,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, that'll bore you: it's only a few stray press-cuttings. He liked at dinner-parties to sit next women who had read his books (the dear, kind, tactful sex!), and asked him how he wrote. He had, in fact, published his first book under a pseudonym (his father, as a clergyman, naturally objecting to the real name being used), but found that no one recognised him as the author under his own different name. He therefore, on his father's death, had paid some pounds and taken the name Brett permanently as his own for ordinary use. His sister, who was like most women in being petulant as to trifles but mild about the things that matter, had submitted from being Ruth Brettesley to become mere Ruth Brett. Now, when he dined out, Hubert often found that women next him would ask if he was"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "one; happy enough perhaps, at first, in solitude, and working well--happy and working until illness came. Then he saw the change. Ruth, he admitted, had been quite splendid--like her old self--when he had been ill. That was when you wanted a woman about.... Then, as Kenneth had said, he would grow older. He could see himself climbing, more and more shakily each year, the long flight to his flat; too settled far by now to move even to a lower floor. He could see the porters and people saluting--oh, so respectfully!--till he was past, and then imitating his old, broken shuffle. He could see himself turning on with fumbling hands the light he used to switch on so gaily as he dashed in thirty years ago. He could see himself all alone at night, when it was too cold for an old man to walk about and no one wanted him; sitting there with weary eyes tight closed, thinking of the friends that he would like to see, the friends all dead or--married.... And finally he could see himself climb those stairs, so full of memories, for the last time, and stagger in for the last time to that small room where he had had such jolly parties in the years gone by, and ring and have just strength to gasp out,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I must have a doctor."
}
] |
33103
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bring it in,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, it's you, Ruth!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course it is, she laughed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who else would it be, you stupid boy? Perhaps you mean, though, you don't want me?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course I always want you, old girl. This hideous geniality, he felt, was the worst part of their whole constant warfare, recalling by an empty mockery that they had once been such devoted chums; still could be, possibly, if they were only parted."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm not working,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you quite sure you're not, Hugh? she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If you _are_, do say so. I've been alone all the evening till now, so it won't hurt me to go on like that till bedtime. I am used to it, you see!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am not to be considered,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It'll be nice to have a little chat, old girl, he said genially."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sit down and make yourself comfy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If you're quite, quite sure? she quavered."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wish I felt certain you hadn't been just thinking you would settle down, now Mr. Boyd had gone. I should be absolutely happy with my Patience."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Boyd was in great form,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What did he say then?"
}
] |
33103
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Say? answered Hubert, far more comfortably."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What didn't he say? My dear Ruth, I've had a classic homily on Marriage!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Marriage? Then I suppose you asked him in to give you his advice?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Really, said Hubert in another voice,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I imagine you can't object, now, to what I ask my pals in for?--supposing that I did."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My dear boy, you know I've no objection, as you call it, to anything at all you do. You are a man. I'm only your guest. I've no right to object. But I am naturally interested. Of course, though, if you'd rather not tell me what Mr. Boyd said --she paused,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No we won't, cried Hubert, with a sudden passion."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm sick to death of all this constant friction."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Friction!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, friction. That's the only word. You know, Ruth, I don't want to be a brute. You know what pals we were as kids, what pals we still are (he forced the words out),"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hubert!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For goodness' sake, he said, and it was nearly stronger,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He took a moment to calm himself and then said levelly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look here, old girl, I want to thrash this matter out once and for all. It's no use killing love in this world, is it? It's rare enough, God knows. We've been such good pals, you and I, and now we are--like this."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We don't mean it really,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We do, though. Anyhow, we should in time. It's just like other habits. It grows. It grows quickly, too. We never used to fight at all, you know."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "she protested, very near to tears."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've always given in."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, damn!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is it, Hugh?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course you've given in, he flung at her."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You always do. You're always in the right: you are so keen to be! You wouldn't make me cross for worlds! It's just your damned humility I can't endure. No man on earth could possibly endure it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can't help my nature, she sobbed into her handkerchief."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I do my best to please you. I try to fall into your ways, I'm sure."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm sorry, Ruth, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was my fault. I lost my temper. I was a cad to swear but somehow--oh, I don't know, and he sank down upon the chair again."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I suppose really it's just what Boyd has often said, brother and sister weren't ever made to live together. He says all relatives have a natural antipathy to one another and----"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm sure _I_ haven't,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's all so difficult, he said in a new tone, as though embarking upon an analysis."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know you're wanting just to please me, Ruth; you are an awfully good sort; you'll make somebody a splendid wife some day; but just because you are my sister, I suppose, I get annoyed when you begin asking whether you can come in and saying you don't want to if----"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You'd be much more annoyed if I came in without,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You mean it's just my nature, and not you? I'd get annoyed whichever way it was? I'm just a selfish sort of cross-grained swine?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I didn't say so, you _know_ I didn't; you're simply twisting my words round."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I was only telling you, he said with dignity,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "--once more he waved his hand--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh Hugh, she cried, forgetting all their differences,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But wouldn't you mind?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mind? She came across to him, sat on his chair-arm, and took his hand in hers."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How little you know me, old boy, really! Of course I shouldn't mind. You must never, never consider me at all! Do you imagine I expect you to remain a bachelor your whole life long, just to look after me? I shall find work to do or something; and anyhow, what is my life by the side of your career?"
}
] |
33103
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, he said automatically, not realising how inadequate it was; and then,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, old girl, I really think perhaps _now_ I ought to work. He patted her hand in a perfunctory way as he released his own from it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We've had our little chat and it's your bedtime, I am sure."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hugh, she said presently,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who what is?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who you think of marrying. Who's suddenly put the idea into your head. She waited a few moments; then, as he said nothing, she added almost slyly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, I think I know! I've not forgotten Devonshire yet, and what a lot there was in your letters about Miss--Miss--I forget her name."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, that Miss Hallam, you mean,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I see you don't mean to tell me, she said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very well. Of course I had no right to ask. I thought you'd like to let me know. She sighed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wish men weren't so terribly reserved."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And I wish, he retorted,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Really, Mr. Brett? But how unusual!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think it's quite good, old boy; but I never feel you're made for fiction. I suppose essays never sell, though, and plays are quite impossible?"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "DEAR MISS HALLAM, he began and added"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My"
}
] |
33103
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The fact of the matter is--I find myself getting very bald now that I really have to use my pen for something that matters!--I have been thinking a lot of my jolly days in Devonshire, the tennis, the sea-walks, the picnics, everything with all of you, and (if I'm allowed to say it) especially with _you_ yourself."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "WHY WOMEN WED"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mother, she began, quite simply,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've had a letter from Mr. Brett. He has asked me to marry him and I think I rather shall."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You've what, dear? she asked blankly. Then not waiting for any reply,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do you know about marriage, my dear child? What do you know about Mr. Brett?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't want to be an old maid,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Old maid! she cried."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That is a preposterous idea you've got out of your comic papers."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They're all I've ever read, histories and them,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're nothing but a child, my darling girl, the mother said more gently;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and searching frantically for objections which she felt sure must exist, she fell back on her first thought."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do you know about Mr. Brett?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I liked him better than any of the men I've met."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You've not met _any_ yet,"
}
] |
33103
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look here, dear, she said gently;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I want to talk seriously to you. Life isn't so easy as you think. I've kept you here, safe from all worries and responsibilities and guarded you so that everything has seemed quite simple; but there _are_ worries and responsibilities. You've got to live your life now, you see, Helena, and you will have to learn the habit of making quick choices whether you go this way or that. Life is full of cross-roads, you will find, and not all of them lead right. You can't marry the first man you meet just because he asks you to. Later on you might meet some one who, you would then see, is the man you ought to have married.... I don't want to put such terrible ideas into your head, dear child; I've never spoken to you of them, but such things have occurred and may occur again."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You see, dear, went on Mrs. Hallam, pressing her child to her as though she could not at all afford to let her go and be left all alone,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "whereat, half laughing and half crying, she kissed Helena, too dazed almost to respond."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That will be possibly life's most important choice. Don't make it, darling child, until you're fit for it. Stay with me, and there was a pathetic appeal in her words,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Stay here?"
}
] |
33103
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Aren't you happy, haven't you been happy here?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why of course I have, you dearest of dear old mums, cried Helena, and pressed her lips against her mother's cheek;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But----? asked her mother, smiling sadly. How ridiculous, how almost tragic, it all was! She threw back her mind to her own first romance and wondered where the man was now."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But----? Tell me, dear. I shall quite understand and I am sure you need not feel afraid of me!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But----, she said once again; and then, suddenly inspired, she started rapidly;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, it is what you said just now. I--I _must_ live my own life. I want--I want to grow. I've not grown since I was fifteen. I felt so silly, like a child, when I was talking to--to Mr. Brett, and I am twenty now."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And so, said Mrs. Hallam, trying not to smile,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I want to marry Mr. Brett, she said with dignity,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you mean I have kept you back?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, you've been splendid. Helena patted her hand."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No girl ever had such a good mother.... And now you are going to be good about this too, and not be troublesome and try to keep me here!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Expand and"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Helena dear, she said weakly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and now her voice grew very feeble, very plaintive,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do you mean?"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All these years, dear child, though you did not, could not of course guess it, I've been moulding you according to a theory of my own; not a new theory but what is far better, one that has stood the test of centuries. I wanted to form your character, your will, before you were brought face to face with life. That process is not quite complete yet, although you seem to think it is. She spoke the last words rather bitterly, then with a sudden change to gentleness, went on,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But even if it had been, do you think that when I've given up the best years of my life to you, it is fair for you to dash away, leaving me alone, and not to give me the reward of spending a few pleasant years with the dear child I have helped to form?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't see that, she answered almost fiercely, surprised at her own words, oddly unlike herself of one hour ago and many years before."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My dear! she cried."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where did you get these most extraordinary notions? Was it from this Mr. Brett?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You said you liked all his ideas so much, laughed Helena,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is a difference, dear, retorted Mrs. Hallam, her calmness regained,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What have you got against him then?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nothing, dear, absolutely nothing. Do not let us have a scene. I thought him a charming man; possibly rather self-centred, but clever, cultured, and with, I am sure, good motives. I feel certain he will do extremely well. If you had wished to marry him in five years--but at twenty----!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, remarked Helena slowly, as though reviewing the whole situation from impartial ground,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I suppose the wedding won't be to-morrow. Don't you usually wait a bit?"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mother, laughed Helena, suddenly clasping her fondly round the neck,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can see from your cross face you _do_ mean to be troublesome! Now just be good instead and say that we may be at any rate engaged? It will be such fun, and we can see then how we feel about it."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very well, my own dear daughter,"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yours,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "P.S.--You won't be able to tease me any more about my name, afterwards!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dear little girl!"
}
] |
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